by John F. Collins and Allen Feldman AES is pleased to share this interview celebrating our 25th anniversary American Ethnologist article from 1994. John F. Collins, professor of anthropology at Queens College and [...]
Delhi. Friday, March 20, 5.36pm. The sound of a plane. It takes me back to rural Bengal, to the start of my fieldwork, when I would sit on people’s veranda [...]
“It turns out, writing a dissertation is a lot like being in quarantine!” I joke, frequently, when people ask how I’m doing. But it’s not true. Not exactly. Although I’ve [...]
In the fall of 2019, I began my study of the myriad ways in which one of Pakistan’s commercial port city Karachi’s oldest and largest working class neighborhoods, Lyari Town, [...]
I moved to Piracicaba, a town in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in November 2019 to study how a network of entrepreneurs, financial investor, corporate executives, and agricultural producers [...]
I have spent the past year actively trying to convince myself that I am not sick. This is my attempt to try to reconcile feeling fine or mostly fine, with [...]
As the USA moved to stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of covid-19, some conservatives objected to the policies on the grounds that they would harm the economy. In March, [...]
The global COVID-19 pandemic is ushering in what's being called a "new normal" leaving us with questions about what's in store as stay-at-home orders continue and reopening processes begin. In [...]
The current pandemic landscape is of unprecedented global scale, ushering in what is being called “a new normal,” and bringing with it new social organization, living strategies, and a hypervisibility [...]
Tomorrow will be my first day of classes in the Spring Quarter term at Kalamazoo College. Like most of the academic world, I will be teaching online. I have never [...]
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